Set in your ways? Adaptable? Eccentric?

My 14 year old GS brought a friend from school here. I made some remark I thought was just ordinary whereupon GS gave a significant look to his friend and murmured 'see I told you what she's like'

I don't think I'm eccentric but Roy from Coronation Street definitely is, although Hayley isn't even though she is a transsexual.

There are no eccentrics in East Enders.

I thought I was relatively normal until I learnt my niece called me ' Dotty Aunty........' as do all her friends! I wonder what she has said to them ?

My dgds call me NanaBanana because they think I'm bonkers!

Fondasharing that sounds bout right to me. Lovely and messy. But my DS has been known to refer to me as "mad Nana". Other son calls me "jess" these days.
Someone once said to my mother "One thing about your children. They are never boring" My ma went on to say she was so glad we were not teenagers at that particular moment as we would undoubtedly have been punks - or was it goths...
Pe-lease. Nose piercing? Never.
But I feel pretty boring these days. Harry Potter - I wish. I have written a book about the immune system and I am writing a sequel about the gut. Not likely to be mega best sellers methinks!

Why does my daughter think I'm odd because I want a doorknocker for Xmas?

I don't like the one I have (an URN?).....I said, well at least it isn't ordinary

My family must have thought me eccentric when I asked for a bird table, because I didn't get one! Forget now what I did get - probably a scarf of which I have a pretty comprehensive wardrobe.

My family must have thought me eccentric when I asked for a bird table, because I didn't get one! Forget now what I did get - probably a scarf of which I have a pretty comprehensive wardrobe.

Done it again - clicked a second time, sorry!

That is so eccentric annodomini ([cross].

I think that in some way we all have little eccentricities. After all none of us will conform to the norm in every respect.
My lifestyle is considered peculiar even by some those who benefit by it; after their (free) English language lesson several of my students were leaving the house last week just as the next lot were arriving, along with a local man who was calling in, as he occasionally does, in the hope of a cuppa; he's a dear chap, but has some mental problems and his hygiene isn't always the best. You can imagine the hallway was chaos for a few moments then one of the students piped up, "How can your family live like this with so many people using your house?" My (newly married and living here with his wife) son was on his way out at the time and responded, "Oh it's okay - we come and go too."
My children all believe that I'm an oddity, but they accept that I can be no other than I am - and sometimes they love me for it and sometimes they love me in spite of it.

Granny .

Grannyactivist - I love the sound of your house!
I don't see anything eccentric in wanting a bird table or a door knocker!

When I was at school our art mistress (who wore yellow stockings) used to get her mother to pose for us in the weird and wonderful collection of coloured scarves and beads that she always wore. I thought then that I would aim to look like her when I got old and I think I'm doing quite well. My daughter has always modelled herself on Diana in Waiting for God, a role which suits her very well

Sounds terribly DH Lawrence deedaa

Sadly minus the nude male wrestling JessM